. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . np H E Common-wealth, whofe Bafe is firmely laid -*- On evenefl ground, of luftice and the right,By time or chaunge, in vaine we fee aflaidc,But where affedion overfl\^aies with might:Confufion there, all vnto havock bringes,And vndermines, the thrones of mightieft Kingcs • Our Englifh 5 T£ P H £ iV, did take vnto him thisFaire falling Plume jrefembling bed of all,The new eftablftit goverment of his,Whereas each feather keepes his ranck and fall:So fhouid that ftate ^ (

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. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . np H E Common-wealth, whofe Bafe is firmely laid -*- On evenefl ground, of luftice and the right,By time or chaunge, in vaine we fee aflaidc,But where affedion overfl\^aies with might:Confufion there, all vnto havock bringes,And vndermines, the thrones of mightieft Kingcs • Our Englifh 5 T£ P H £ iV, did take vnto him thisFaire falling Plume jrefembling bed of all,The new eftablftit goverment of his,Whereas each feather keepes his ranck and fall:So fhouid that ftate ^ (let Fortune doe her worft ^)As fairc ^ and firme, as ever at the firft. The ImprefcofKing Scephcn •. Bis 16^ His graviora. * O paflS gravioraDcusdabit hisquoqiie fincm.

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